All About Bentley

Well I finally committed to a new custom domain name. I'm still sad that I no longer have "allaboutbentley.com", but thanks to Mark and his suggestions, I've decided upon "www.whosyourbentley.com". And for coming up with the winning name, Mark will receive ... well nothing, but I do appreciate him coming up with it. I'm guessing it was a take off of the days when I sold T-Shirts online that said "Whos Ya Daddy?" on them. I had to stop though because it was some sort of copyright infringement or something. Anyway thats a different story. Now I guess I need to make a new logo for the top of my page.

Guess what boys and girls....remember when I won the Senseo Coffee maker ? I filled out a second " Share Senseo " questionnaire and today received my email confirming I had won...again. HA! Except they do a little bit of cross-verification and won't deliver to the same address twice. So this one is going to my mother-in-laws house. Got to keep those brownie points up ya know. And that tells me if you didn't get one the first time, try again...and again and again.

My front windshield has been covered in grime for about the last 2 weeks making it a little tricky to see when driving into the sun. I'm out of washer fluid so during lunch I went to Albertsons to fill my car up, and then I went inside the store to get a new bottle of fluid. When I found out it was $2.50 I said no thank you, paid $2.39 for my Monster energy drink, and went on my way. Update: I hate having to explain things, that takes all the fun out of it and it taints my post, but you can get a big bottle of washer fluid for about $1 at Wal-Mart. That's why I didn't buy it at Albertsons. How is Albertsons even still in business?

Last night Deborah and I got home from the store to find the kids had a special surprise for us. The back porch was cleaned off and the patio table was set, complete with table cloth, paper floral arrangement, and a snack and drink for each of us. The sign on the table indicated we were dining at "The Casa". I mentioned that we were eating at our own little Bistro. Zane corrected me, we were in fact eating at a "Home-ro.

I recently made the discovery that Blogger (the kind folks hosting this here blog) can host a blog under your own domain name. So instead of "allaboutbentley.blogspot.com", this blog could be accessed at "www.allaboutbentley.com". Only problem is, I let that name expire, and some yahoo snatched it up. So now I'm searching for new ideas for a domain name that reflects my family name. Every domain I've come up with so far is taken: "bentley.com", "scottbentley.com", "thebentleys.com" etc. I could do something like "allaboutbentley.info" but those are cheesy, and no one would remember them. So, if you have any good suggestions, feel free to send them my way.

School has finally started. All 3 of our kids are now in school, with Zane starting Kindergarten today. Kindergarten always starts 2 days later than all the older grades in Edmond. I think Mom is having a pretty rough time with Zane finally going to school, but she'll be all right once the routine is going.

I have this oddity at my house, something I haven't wanted to mention for fear of being an outcast. We have a magic box at our house. Seriously. I know right now you're thinking, "What is this freak talking about?". Well I guess if you're still reading, then you must be interested....so read on. There is a red box that lives in my closet. It's an old box, I've had it for about 20 years. It's not really a box...more of a basket. It's plastic and has an open top. I'm not sure where it came from, I think China. It sits on the floor at the back of my closet. Every morning I throw dirty clothes in it. Every night they're clean and put away. It's the most amazing thing. I love my magic box.

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Yes co-workers, I worked in the middle of the night, so as expected here's a new post. Hey what else am I going to do at this time of day. So, what with football season right around the corner, and me being up in the middle of the night for work, doing nothing more than monitoring a 2 hour test, I got nostalgic and went to YouTube looking for Sooner football videos . I started feeling like a real homer when I was watching highlights of the 2000 national championship season and feeling a little choked up. There are a ton of good highlights. It's awesome seeing Roy Williams just crush people. Who can forget his Superman move against Texas . And I love watching Quentin Griffin scramble , its like his legs aren't attached to his body. I was always afraid he was going to get killed but he always hopped right up. I didn't even go to the school for crying out loud. But I've been a Sooner football fan since I was about 10, and I think I love it a little more every year,...

I guess I wasn't as excited about the kids leaving as I thought because I had them leaving a week later than they actually are. They leave on the 27th of July, not the 3rd of August . Not sure how I screwed that up, but SWEET! And now it's not even 9 days, it's only 6. YES!

I was driving home from work tonight, heading east on 178th street. It was around 5:20. As I was approaching Portland, I could see 2 news helicopter hovering over the road a mile or so ahead of me. Is it a fire? I don't see any smoke. Ok so it's probably a wreck. Close, it was this. And be sure and watch the video. Man if I'd just come home 5 minutes earlier I could have seen it in person. Update: They changed their video. It was 100% just the raw video from the news helicopter of the last 5 minutes or so of the chase. Now's it just the news story version. Not nearly as cool.

That's how many days are left until my kids, all 3 of them, are gone for the week. This is a first. I love my kids but I'm ready, and I know Deborah is too. This will be her first real break from all of them. She had a weekend away a few months ago, but this is the first time the two of us will be together, without kids, for an extended period, ever. Finally.

Because of the 3 feet of rain we've had over the last few months, we've had a small infestation of frogs in our yard. Every time we're in the front or backyard, we can count on seeing at least one little frog hop bye. Zane loves them. I found him carrying one around in his shirt pocket the other night. He also likes to bury them in his sand box, but so far he's been pretty gentle overall and they have escaped any real torture. Unfortunately this evening, one wasn't so lucky. I was running the gas trimmer around the flower bed in my front yard, and all of a sudden this little frog went flying by. Yep, I wacked it. I didn't kill it, just chopped off 2 1/2 legs. And cut it up pretty good. I didn't know what to do, I was too grossed out at the prospect of putting it out of it's misery. So instead I just kicked it into the bushes. Farewell little buddy.

It's raining....again.

Here's the newest addition to our back yard.

I think this Fourth of July was probably one of THE most boring on record for the Bentley household. Deborah and I both have had a bad cold this week and really didn't feel like getting up and doing anything on the 4th. We were going to go to the parade , but it started at 8:45am, and I think we woke up feeling like death at about 8:50. So that was disappointment number 1. Disappointment number 2 was that for the first time in 4 years we didn't have our friends house to go to outside of the city limits, so that meant we didn't get to buy any fireworks. So instead we went to Target and bought a Slip-N-Slide and 3 water guns. Thinking back we probably should have gotten the kids something too. One of the guns was a Super Soaker Max Infusion Flash Flood (and it only cost $15. 'Sup with Amazon.com and $45 for a water gun. Geez). Anyway, we ended the day with some grilled hot dogs, and watching the fireworks show at UCO , but half-a** as our day was, we didn't feel lik...

My "free" Senseo coffee maker is here! The mail man delivered it Saturday afternoon. I was so excited. I ripped open the box, carefully read the instructions, cleaned the system, and then after putting in the coffee pod and adding water, in about 2 minutes I had myself a cup of coffee. I took the first sip and ... well...it was coffee, that's about it. But it was easy, there's no denying that.

Will you morons quit throwing your money away on $500+ cell phones. It's making life more difficult on those of us that actually have some sense.

I don't remember how I came about it now, but sometime last week I came across the website "www.sharesenseo.com" . It's a promotional website for the Senseo Coffee Pod System . I filled out their questionnaire and then 2 days ago received an email that I had qualified to receive one of their systems free (except I have to pay $15 shipping and handling). I followed the instructions in the email, and then was told it would be 4-6 weeks before delivery. But a few hours later I had another email with my DHL tracking number. Woohoo, free coffee for me (well $15, whatever). I guess if I like the coffee it makes, it will become part of my daily grind. I did a little research and it seems that these units are all units that have been returned somewhere, but are supposed to work. I hope mine doesn't have a latte problems.

I realize this is in bad taste, and I do feel terrible for this girl, but I couldn't resist: I feel like a real heel mentioning these things, and some of them are kinda corny but, Did you hear about the girl who's feet were cut off at Six Flags? I guess the ride defeated her Bless her soul (sole) They were playing FootLoose over the park speakers Apparently she was only a few feet off the ground When she got off the ride at first she just tried to walk it off She was in pretty bad shape but thankfully she didn't kick the bucket On the trip to the hospital the ambulance was acting up. They were afraid they might have to tow(toe) it. Workers at the park put their best foot forward and located her detached parts They hoofed it to the hospital Apparently they were only a few feet behind the ambulance Although the woman was a teenager at first the hospital put her in the childrens ward. She was two feet shorter than the average girl her age. Six Flags withheld any comments at fi...